Chris Yates

Chris Yates is a Database Administration Manager with over thirteen years of experience in the SQL industry. His experience includes design and implementation of both OLTP and OLAP solutions as well as assessment and implementation of SQL Server environments for best practices, performance, and high availability solutions accompanied by a strong development background. He enjoys helping others in the SQL Server community and does this by contributing on several SQL forums, creating “The SQL Professor”, and speaking at several SQL functions. His passion and focus is not only with technology but also helping others along their way and career path.

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How Can Data Empower Leaders

Using data effectively, leaders can make better decisions, drive innovation, and inspire trust. What is leadership through data? Leadership that utilizes data is the ability to use data as...

2024-03-13 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

Data Migration Assistant Sources

In the current (Sep 2024) Data Migration Assistant, what are the possible sources for on-premises SQL Server instances?

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